There are often questions asked when changing or buying a new computer about the process of Hard Drive Wipe. The process for wiping or cleaning your personal data is quite simple as one might think. To completely wipe off your data you will have to write over the data. Simply reformatting the drive or just deleting all the files will not help. Fortunately there are a number of inexpensive and free wipe programs, which are also called as shedders can cover the data with random pattern or zeroes, which makes the data restoration software unreadable. However, there are some machines that can recover the data that has been written over only a few times. This is where the secure erase standards like the department of defense 5220.22-M will have to be referred. The specification of this read as, if you overwrite the drive three times according to the specifications it would be difficult to recover the data. However, a number of professionals would recommend you to overwrite the data seven times to ensure you have completely wiped off your hard drive making it completely unrecoverable. Sometimes reading the data that has been overwritten by a shredder would require expensive hardware,...
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